RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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AfricanAmericans owned their own land
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AfricanAmericans rented land at low prices until they could buy it from the owner
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AfricanAmericans farmed the land giving half of what they grew to the owner of theland
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AfricanAmericans were given 40 acres of land to farm
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following BEST describes sharecropping? These people had to give farm owners part of their crop for using the land.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sharecropping developed, then, as a system that theoretically benefited both parties. Landowners could have access to the large labor force necessary to grow cotton, but they did not need to pay these laborers money, a major benefit in a post-war Georgia that was cash poor but land rich.
Detailed explanation-4: -American sharecroppers worked a section of the plantation independently, usually growing cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, and other cash crops, and receiving half of the parcel’s output. Sharecroppers also often received their farming tools and all other goods from the landowner they were contracted with.